On this blog, we share the stories of people all over San Antonio who are leading change. Read about the individuals, organizations, and collaborations that are moving us closer to the shared Community Vision.
By Laura Carter As a longtime resident of San Antonio, blogger and nonprofit enthusiast, I have been aware of SA2020 since the beginning. I watched the NOWCastSA live webcast of the first community meeting. Skeptical, but interested, I payed attention
By Dave Gannon The 2012-13 school year was my first year as a San Antonio Youth Literacy Reading Buddy. After just one year, I’m convinced that more people need to get involved in programs like this one. My Buddy is an
By Katie Hoovler, SA2020 LEE Fellow Two years and a couple months ago, when I told people in Ohio that I was moving to San Antonio they usually responded one of two ways: 1) “Isn’t that where the Alamo is?”
By Hannah Monroe, SA2020 Trinity Mellon Fellow in Neighborhoods and Growth Management I’m going to confess something that you hopefully agree with: I think parks are wonderful! Yep. That’s it. Guess that’s not much of a secret. Although you might
By Nicole Goodman, Trinity Mellon Fellow in Downtown Development San Antonio is a special place. Sure, Austin’s got the music thing, and the Sixth Street thing, and the all-around “chill” thing. Young people love it and want to live there.
By Moira Allen, SA2020 Trinity Mellon Fellow in Arts & Culture Hello there my fellow San Antonians, I’m pretty darn passionate about San Antonio and where it’s going, because it’s been my home since I was a wee(er) one. I
By Salome Wilfred, SA2020 Trinity Mellon Fellow in Health & Fitness The best advice I’ve ever received from someone was the importance of balance: balance with a healthy distribution of family, social activity, work and fitness activities. As a current
By Darian Thomas I remember finding out about SA2020 through the Youth Orchestras of San Antonio (which I’m a member of), and thinking to myself: “This sounds exciting, I want to be involved!” But I remember also feeling a bit
By Gus Sullivan Hello amazing SA2020 community! My name is Gus Sullivan and I work for San Antonio B-cycle. I wanted to share my story about how I ended up where I am today and how B-cycle and SA2020 are
By Callie Helms, SA2020 LEE Fellow Data. Just reading the word instantly makes people perk up or recoil. If you internally cringed, I would guess you claim that you’re just not a “numbers person.” If you readied your critical-thinking self,
After 12 years of driving progress toward a shared community vision, SA2020, the nonprofit organization, is dissolving. We believe this is the most visionary thing we can do. We made this decision with the greatest care for our organizational values of leadership, community, and accountability, and we hope you’ll read more about it on our blog.
Our website is live with our final data release, showing where San Antonio stands on reaching the shared community vision. The data release is accompanied by our final call to action—a policy agenda for City government based on our unique bird’s-eye view of San Antonio.
While SA2020’s operations ended March 28, these resources, along with the last twelve years of our research and stories, will be available to download from our website through September 2024.
– Team SA2020